Beth Galloway, Information Goddess Consulting

Slides available online (link to be added)

Widgets - a piece of a website that you embed somewhere else

• IGoogle.com - personalized Google, made up of widgets
• Blogger went widgets a year ago
• Facebook  - widgets and outside apps.

Widgets are user-created content

Why widgets? - We’re lazy.  “one click is too many”

• No downoading
• works on every browser
• easy! copy/paste

Old way- Link. download plugin. Install plugin.  click again.

New way- imbedded Youtube video.

Beth did a lot of widget how-to and showed some good examples of using widgets.

Q1: Meebo doesn’t allow for multiple log-ins into the same account.  How do you get around that?  - You can use Meebo chat room.  (A note from the audience that the Virtual Reference session includes other solutions).